On 13 September, almost four months after the explosion and oil spill in the Indian town of Baghjan (Tinsukia district, Assam state), experts from the company in charge of  the oil well (Oil India Limited) and international engineers managed to control the fire.

Four days earlier, an engineer from the company had died on site. He was the third employee to lose his life whilst working to contain the damage caused by the explosion on 27 May. Since the fire started, the company has been denounced for irregular operations in the well.

The disaster took place in well No. 5, one of 22 crude oil and natural gas wells in the Baghjan oil deposit, located near the Dibru Saikhowa national park and the Maguri-Motapung wetlands. The area is home to several protected species, among them tigers, Gangetic dolphins and elephants. Click here to read and listen to the interview.